Ch 38: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

-Ulquiorra's viewpoint-

"Ulquiorra." I could feel something pushing gently against my shoulder but ignored it as I buried my head into the pillow it was resting on. A few moments passed before the rubbing started again at a rougher pace. "Come on you lazy sack of bones, either you get up or I'm pushing you off the bed."

My response to that was a groan. It's not that I wasn't a morning person it was more like it was too early and dark that my body didn't want to get up just yet; yeah that a better way to put it. Only the feeling of being dragged across the mattress was what made me finally decide to try and make a real attempt to wake up.

"Piss off."

The sound of air being released was made somewhere to my right making it obvious that I wasn't the only person annoyed at the moment; I like my sleep sue me.

"I told you, you're going to school today." I felt something slip under my legs and my torso and prepared myself for whatever was coming. Sure it would have been easier to just listen to the person, who I now realized to be Grimmjow and this was actuality his bed, but honestly it was easier and more fun to be a dick sometimes.

Suddenly, but not all that unexpected, I was lifted from the bed and pulled into a muscular chest. Finally with my resolve worn thin I opened my eyes to find an amused Grimmjow smirking down at me. "Morning sunshine."

"Fuck you."

"Wow, you only said four words this morning and two were curses. I must be fun to actually live with you." I flipped him off before squirming around in his grasp hoping that he would get the hint to let me go but apparently my boyfriend wasn't that smart.

He then proceeded to carry me from the room and down the hall and stairs to the dining room, usually I would be kicking and protesting the entire way but it was just too early for that shit right now.

Using his feet to pull out one of the dark wood chairs around the table, Grimmjow lowered me into the offered seat before going into the kitchen. I was left to rub the sleep from my eyes and stretch out my sore limbs; I like the thought of sleeping with Grimmjow at night but he likes to spread himself out making him a rather poor bed mate.

"You like Lucky Charms right?" Grimmjow called from the kitchen.

I nodded but realized that he couldn't see me; it's about six in the morning leave me alone. "Yeah, it's fine." About a minute passed before he reentered the room, cereal box and bowls in tow, and took a seat next to me. The muscular teen basically did everything for me that morning from setting up my entire breakfast to me finally batting him away so I could get changed alone in the bathroom.

"So where exactly are your brother and parents?" I was just waiting for Grimmjow to get his shoes on before we left for school and I hadn't seen anyone from his family wandering around the house yet thought it was a little after seven.

"Nnoitora's probably getting up now, Dad leaves for work at like five I think? And Ma won't get up till at least ten. Welcome to the average day at the Jaegerjaquezs house." He said sarcastically as he straightened up, now fully dressed, and slung his backpack over a shoulder.

Taking a firm hold of my hand, Grimmjow dragged me through his house and out to the car. It wasn't till our bags were in the back seat and I myself was sitting in the car that I realized why Grimmjow had been sticking so close to me this morning.

I was going to my first day of school in almost two weeks.

The first time since the mishap at that party.

I was gonna be the freak at the high school.

Again.

I mentally face palmed at the fact that that little bit of information was able to escape my thoughts for so long. That bastard was probably expecting me to run and hide when he wasn't looking, not only would that explain why he was so clingy but also why he appeared to have gotten us up so early.

Not interested by the music that was filling the car I blocked out the noise and focused on the scenery that was flying past the window. Already I could feel the stares on me, the whispers that would follow me through the halls and all the god damned teachers that would just make the whole situation worst by asking if everything was alright when they knew I was just going to lie.

We pulled into the parking lot and although I tried my best to remain composed on the outside I was freaking out on the inside. At my old school I wasn't exactly treated "normally" when I came out. There were a few bullies, more like an abundance of bullies but who's counting *cough* literally the whole grade *cough*

"Breath Ulquiorra, as long as you're by me no one will bother you."

Apparently I wasn't as good at hiding my feelings as I thought, "…Alright."

Hesitantly, I got out of the car, and keeping my eyes on the ground, I retrieved my backpack from the backseat. God Damn It! For trying to be an emotionless person my nerves were threatening to make my heart beat out of my chest.

A muscular arm was draped over my shoulder and I didn't need to know that it was Grimmjow leading me up to the schools front door so I just kept my eyes to the ground.

The school has some nasty ass colored tiles.

The feet of different people came into view of my tunnel vision indicating that we were passing through the lobby; most likely going towards Grimmjows odd group of friends. Oh god what where they going to think about me? Normally I don't care what others think but I'm freaking out right now. From what I had seen between Grimmjow and his friends they got along fine but I was new and probably didn't make the best impression on them; just cause they accepted Grimmjow doesn't mean they would do the same for me.

"Finally got your boy to come to school again Grimmy?"

"Hahaha, Fuck off Szayel."

"Yeah Szayel. You're just mad that you don't' have someone to go to when you want to get laid."

Wow. Where did that come from? I raised my eyes in time to witness Grimmjow punching the boy with a scarfs arm.

"Lay off. It was a hassle just getting him to come today, I don't want you all scaring him off before the day even started. Now if he's in one of your classes I want you to look after him in case one of the Berries people decides to bother him." Grimmjows voice came out demanding but from the smirks that he was getting I wasn't' sure if he had really made an impact on them. He probably thought the same thing too because only a few seconds later he added, "Please."

"Come on Grimmy, do you really think we would let a new friend get eaten alive by the gray team?" Aaroniero questioned while pushing Grimmjows arm off my shoulder so he could wrap his own around me. "My little buddy won't have any problems today and if he does I'll spear the bad guys."

It was a comforting gesture but it just left me feeling more awkward then I already felt and remained that way till my boyfriend managed to pry the loud teens arm off me and replace it with his own. Though Grimmjows group was busy conversing with each other it wasn't enough to distract me from the stares we were receiving from the teens surrounding us; many of them were wearing the color opposite of our own.

A comforting squeeze of my shoulder pulled me back to the groups' conversation and I made a point to try and pay attention this time. Not too soon after my nerves finally started to calm down the bell rang signaling that my second day at a new school was about to start.

Fuck my life.

It was strange but I didn't notice that on my first day I basically had at least one of Grimmjows friends in each class and even though I was only in class for one day in like the past two weeks I didn't miss much and what I did I was quickly filled in on.

Szayel and Aaroniero were in chemistry with me.

Halibel put up with the perky Miss. Shihoin* with me in Trigonometry.

And finally I had Stark in Miss. Shiba's** art classes where I was currently sitting at a paint stained table waiting for said Brunette to arrive. Since I had been surrounded by people, who I figured out had a bit of leverage with the students here, no one said anything about me but as I sat here alone I felt a bit vulnerable.

The sound of a seat being pulled out to my right got my attention and I looked up to see a pale figure smirking down at me.

"Looks who's back."

I tried to ignore the albino as best as I could but he took the seat right next to mine and it's kind of hard to block someone out when they get right in your face. "So where did you run off to for the past two weeks, hm? I had nothing to distract me from my work."

To say I was revolted by him would be an understatement, sure he was good looking but the guy had a creepy voice, a strange persona and an ego the size of Russia. That was not something I wanted to touch with a ten foot pole so to say.

"….."

"Come on beautiful, am I not as good as that Grimmjow?" The way he said 'that Grimmjow' made my skin crawl. What gave him the right to talk about him like that, not that I could control what he said, the only thing I could think of was that he was trying to provoke some kind of response out of me.

"Hey Ulquiorra good to see you again." I turned towards the voice and found that Stark was taking the seat on the other side of me.

I wasn't sure wither to be grateful or annoyed with how he had placed me between himself and the guy he had now caught the attention of.

"Oh my god Stark's awake someone call the press!"

Said brunette ran a hand over the short stubble covering his chin, "That's a pretty good story. But I think the press is a little more preoccupied with the search for half your front tooth. Oh wait that's in a jar on my shelf."

I wanted to disappear as the two glared holes into each other's skulls. Why, why in the name of all that is and was emo, gothic and scene style was I stuck between these two? 'Two more classes, just two more classes till I'm back with Grimmjow. Come one just hold on till then Ulquiorra.'

Trying to cheer myself up wasn't really helping as the teens on either side of me continued to try and one up the other as the class went on. It wasn't even like they were trying to hide that they were arguing, both were outright mocking the other, and maybe it was due to me being directly between the two but I was the only one in the class that seemed to notice what was going on.

I couldn't even concentrate on the figure drawings we were supposed to be working on thanks to the two flicking pieces of charcoal at each other and would occasionally hit me with the peices. By the last ten minutes I was literally counting down the seconds till I would be allowed to leave me seat.

"So, almost-as-pale-as-me new kid what's say you and I ditch our last classes and have some fun?" Hichigo, I had picked up the name through some of Starks comments, folded his arms over the table and part of my paper before resting his head on the locked arms.

The brunette on my other side mimicked the position leaving me with no room to work so I just leaned back in my seat with my hands in my pockets.

"Hey freak, why don't you go and ask your twin that? I'm sure he would be more than happy to accompany you."

"What the hell-"

-RING-

'Oops, there's the bell.' To say I was relieved would be an understatement as I ripped my paper out from under the two and hurried to get my stuff together. Ignoring the two still bickering teens I pulled out my schedule to see what I had next.

Cooking class.

What is the point of a cooking class if we can just buy the same food from a store? I was just going to take this as an easy class that would be a break from my day.

Thanks to that strange albino though I ended up being one of the last people to arrive leaving me with little seat options among the mostly gray crowd teens that were sitting at tables.

Having learned pretty early today that the gray team wasn't exactly my friends I felt a bit….trapped? Trying not to catch anyone's eye I focused on the ovens in the back of the room and just walked to an area that was more black then gray; not caring if I knew them or not.

My focus must have been better than I thought because someone pulled on one of my arms before I realized they were talking to me.

"Damn your dense, just sit down."

Only after being physically pulled into a seat did I realized that it had been one of Grimmjows friends that had manhandled me. I didn't remember his name so I probably came off seeming a bit rude. "Sorry, but what's your name again?"

"Yylfordt."

"….." For some reason he didn't' seem all that happy to be talking with me; and he was the one that made me sit next to him. Yylfordt was resting his chin in the palm of his hand and gazing off in the direction of the teacher who was currently writing something on the board. I'm not a person that gets emotionally involved with people but the blondes' cold attitude was a bit annoying. "…..Do I bother you?"

"Sometimes." I kept staring at him, hoping that it would provoke a further explanation and with a sigh the long hair teen eventually he did elaborate. "I don't like how you just got here and everyone is falling all over you. Especially Grimmjow."

I inwardly groaned; he's one of those controlling people. Basically anytime I get close to one of his friends his problems with me would just grow so I dropped the subject and had a nice quite class compared to my art class before.

And the gym class that was to follow.

Looking at me you wouldn't think I was a very sporty person; and you would be correct. But even I would occasionally get a bit competitive when the mood hits me and a chance to blow off some steam was something I could use right now.

Since I missed getting lockers I had to talk with Mr. Tosen to get one assigned and was lucky to get one in the same row as Grimmjow and Aaroniero .

"ULQUIORRA!"

Maybe I wasn't that lucky.

Aaroniero jumped me and pulled me into a hug before proceeding to lift me up to swing me back and forth. Thank fully he stopped before my spine snapped and lowered me back to the ground giving Grimmjow the opening to whack hit upside the head.

"Ow. I was just trying to sheer him up, he looked so sad."

"That's just his face," Grimmjow commented. He didn't' seem at all interested in what had just happened as he stripped off his uniform shirt.

-Grimmjows viewpoint-

Trying to keep my eyes to myself I waited for Ulquiorra and the idiot to finish changing so we could go to the gym together; safety in numbers. To say that my boyfriends looked strange in his gym clothes was and understatement, he never wore shorts in the summer so just that was something I would need to get used to. He also wore a long sleeve shirt under his uniform top which confused me until I realized that it served the purpose of hiding the small scars that ran over the pale skin.

I scoped around the locker room trying to find the Berry in case he tried to start something but also it was a way to take my mind off what I just realized; images of a bloody Ulquiorra still haunted me at night and I didn't want those to start pooling in my mind during the day too. My scoping was interrupted thought by a tug on my shirt and I turned to find Ulquiorra looking up at me with his large green eyes.

It was kind of cute.

"Ready to go?" Instead of a reply he just started to walk to the gym doors before looking back at me as if to confirm he was doing the right thing, "Yeah, yeah lets go." I followed after him forgetting about the last member of our gym trio until he came running after us yelling 'wait for me'.

"Hurry boys you're late." Tosen called to us not even looking up from the clip board he was supposedly "reading". A few of the students were giggling, probably thinking of some dirty reason we were late, but I didn't' really care; if they honestly think I would do anything like that with Aaroniero they have problems.

Sighing out in annoyance, I sat down with my group close enough to hear what Tosen was saying but not close enough to appear eager to hear what he was saying.

*Yoruichi Shihoin- the lady that turns into a cat.
**Kukaku Shiba- to put it plainly the one armed lady in the soul society that helps Ichigo.

I will allow things to be thrown at me this once as long as long as they are edible objects.
*doesn't dodge the lone object someone was brave enough to throw and gets knocked over*
Ah, thanks for the rock caveman.

Any who, yes I made a promise that I would upload two chapters if I missed last Friday but I think one long chapter makes up for it right.

Right?